Company Overview

BIA was founded in 2002, before eDiscovery had even emerged as an industry. As an industry pioneer, BIA has set the standard for delivering efficient, accurate and cost-effective eDiscovery services.

The founders of BIA, who have backgrounds in law, technology and forensics, experienced a firsthand need for better data solutions in litigation and went on to create them. With the perfect blend of innovative concepts, state-of-the-art technology and highly trained professionals, BIA handles even the most complex legal matters for corporations, governmental agencies and law firms. The history below outlines the growth progression and advancement in the ever-evolving field of eDiscovery.

2009

Piloted an enterprise eDiscovery platform, which eventually became the cloud-based version known as TotalDiscovery

Created BIA TAR – a unique, stand-alone approach to technology assisted review that can be integrated into any review process, regardless of platform. BIA TAR was specifically designed for legal document review and offers significant cost reductions

Opened Washington, D.C. office

2008

Opened data center and document review facilities in Kalamazoo, MI

2007

Released an international version of DiscoveryBOT

Released data analytics tool

2006

Opened a new facility in New York City and an R&D office in Seattle, WA

Added enterprise data management to service offering

2005

Became one of the first eDiscovery firms to offer ESI re-use across matters and custodians, as well as privilege tracking across matters

Pioneered domestic and international remote collections

Released TotalDiscovery advanced infrastructure upgrade

2004

Designed and built our own grid-computing processing farm, increasing capacity to over 100GB/day – and provided this service to other, less-advanced eDiscovery firms

Released TotalDiscovery processing tool

2003

Released the first light-touch live data collection tool, DiscoveryBOT – allowing for seamless data collection from disparate corporate data resources with minimal business interruption, zero end-user interference and nominal IT resource requirements

First to charge a flat fee per custodian for data collection

2002

Founded as a computer forensics consulting firm in New York City

Became one of the first companies to bill for TIFF production by gigabyte instead of by page